Akira Terao
Akira Terao (寺尾 聰, Terao Akira, born May 18, 1947) is Japanese musician and movie actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akira Terao, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ran
as Taro Takatora IchimonjiWith Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular...
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Into the Sun
as MatsudaAfter the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William...
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Dreams
as IA collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
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Madadayo
as SawamuraBased on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida...
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Aegis
as Hirotaka MiyazuThe Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing...
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Casshern
as Dr. Kotaro AzumaFifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia -...
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Lost Paradise
as KinugawaKuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and...
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After the Rain
as Ihei MisawaA group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy...
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The Professor and His Beloved Equation
as ProfessorThis is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain...
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Letter from the Mountain
as Takao UedaHusband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated,...
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Chicken Race
as Tobita JoeStory of friendship between an old man who slept for 45 years and his nurse who woke him up....
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Delivery of Death
as Jiro YamazakiReporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor...
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Fragments of the Last Will
as uncreditedBased on a true story - a true love story of a man and his wife who are at the mercy of fate,...
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The Sands of Kurobe
as KenichiKitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...
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Cat's Eye
as Ryutaro KurodaThree cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in...
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Half a Confession
as Soichiro KajiHalf a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into...
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
as uncreditedTora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased...
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
as KazuoMitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for...
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Mom, Is That You?!
as uncreditedAkio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make...
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History of Jirocho Shimizu
as uncreditedA historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's...
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Tokyo Marigold
as KunioEriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting...
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The Imaginary
as Old Dog (voice)Meet Rudger, the boy created by the imagination of a girl who lost love. They spend precious...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
as uncreditedTora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account,...
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Welcome to Our Home
as Taichi KurataKenta Kurata (Masaki Aiba) lives with his father, Taichi (Akira Terao), his mother, Keiko (Kaho...
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The Hovering Blade
as Shigeki NagamineA widower's teenage daughter is murdered. A mysterious phone call tells him who the killers are...
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Making of 'Dreams'
as SelfThis 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's...
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Mugonkan
as Nomiyama GyoujiA story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art...
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Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror III
as MatsushitaThird "The Story of Terror" film by Junji Inagawa.
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Charming Men
as TamioOne day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea...
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Greatest Gift of Life
as 笹井亮介Ryosuke lives in a small house in Toshima, Tokyo. Since his wife died, he has adjusted to living...
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The Village
as Takashi SaitoThis appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on...
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Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
as Takayuki AzumaA young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be...
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Awakening
as Takayuki SekiguchiAfter the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy...
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Darkness in the Light
as Toshio KanbeA middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto,...
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Kohaku
as Arai ToshioYoneda Katsumi (Nishida Toshiyuki) is a police sergeant who exudes little presence.One day,...
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The Hungry Shinjuku Detective
as uncreditedThe private eye of Shinjuku Yokubo Tantei is a lone wolf, lush, and loser but has kept his...
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Sachiko no sachi
as HirosawaBased on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.
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The Crow In Broad Daylight
as Gomi JinsukeOne day, Tomonaga Takashi, a medical representative of pharmaceutical company Tenei Seiyaku, is...
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Kokoro
as Suenaga TakuroSuenaga Kokoro, an international flight attendant, lives with her mother and grandmother who...
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Special Investigation Nine
as Sakutaro MunakataThe #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been...
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Last Man: The Blind Profiler
as Seiji GodouMinami Hiromi is an FBI agent visiting Japan from the US for a limited time. Minami lost his...
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Brass Dreams
as Hikuma KoichiHikuma Koichi was a saxophone player, but he suffers from the after-effects of an accident. Due...
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The Detectives
as uncreditedA drama about a rookie detective who teams up with a veteran detective and develops a good...
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Cain and Abel
as Takada SoichiroTakada Yu is an employee of a development firm. His father has favored his high-achieving older...
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Affectionate Time
as Wakui YukichiThis is the story about one small coffee shop located in the northern island of...
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Rikuoh
as Haruyuki IiyamaKoichi Miyazawa runs a small, but longstanding company which makes tabi (traditional Japanese...
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CHANGE
as Shoichi KanbayashiCHANGE is a Japanese television drama which aired on Fuji TV starting May 12, 2008.
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Welcome to Our Home
as Taichi KurataKurata Kenta lives with his father, Taichi, his mother, Keiko, and his younger sister, Nana in...
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Love Letters - Men We Have Loved
as Keisaku MitaThe husband leaves home, leaving behind his wife and child and his job as a middle school...
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The Story of Bodyguard Shuhei Fujisawa
as Gendayu Hosoya13th year of the Genroku era. Matahachiro Aoe, a samurai of the Shonai clan from Dewa Province,...
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Jikenya Kagyou
as Fukamachi JotaroJotaro Fukamachi is a poor middle-aged detective who live separated with wife and children. He...
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